One Room Challenge Week 4-working on the art work

Welcome back to week 4 of the Calling it Home One Room Challenge.

For the past 4 weeks I have been participating in this 6 week challenge to make over one room.

I have been working on my 8 year old son's vintage airplane room and this week, I focused on creating and collecting art work for Owen's room.

One of the projects that I worked on was this massive

{it's seriously huge!}

vintage airplane blueprint canvas.

I picked up this canvas for $3 at a garage sale.

{I had no idea what a great deal that was until I started pricing out canvases!  YeeHaw!}

It was blank so I used this dark grey paint to dry brush over the plain canvas.

I found a free blueprint on line of a vintage airplane.

And not just any vintage airplane, a B-29, which is the same airplane that my husband's Grandfather flew on during WWII. 

I had it printed as large as I could.

I have heard that you can get an engineer's print at your local copy store for under $5.

I had an inside source who printed this off for me for free.

Which, as you all know, is my favorite word!

I did have to do a little grunt work and cut off the surrounding white edge.

Once my print was cut and ready,I got out my supplies.I am lucky enough to have fancy Mod Podge supplies, but you could totally make this work with a simple brush that you have on hand.

But I must say, this Mod Podge roller is pretty rad.

And makes the job super easy!

I started by rolling Mod Podge on to my canvas where my picture would eventually go.

You want to make sure you roll your Mod Podge out smooth.

Next, take your picture and position it on to your canvas.

This is the hardest part.

Because the blueprint was scanned in crooked, the angles were a little wonky, which made eyeballing it a little trickier than normal.

I used a ruler to make sure the edges were all about the same distance from the edge.

Once you have your image positioned, you will spread a layer of Mod Podge over the top of your picture.

This step is not for the super perfectionist.

You will not get a nice flat image even if you work from the center out.

There are wrinkles and bubbles, but I liked the imperfect look for this project and rolled with it.

Once your finish brushing on your top layer of Mod Podge,

let your canvas dry.

I love the end result and can't wait to hang it in it's new permanent location.

{not in my foyer!}

As a re-cap, here is how the past four weeks have broken down.Week 1The PlanWeek 2ConstructionWeek 3Painted furniture, linens, curtains, and rugNext week, I'm hoping to have the artwork hung and start working on the finishing details for week six.

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Linen and book page canvas

If you have been reading along for awhile, you know that I love cheap art.
But not cheap looking art!

I also love book pages .
Remember this utensil art I did last year?

I took the same idea and made this linen and book page art.

I started with three clearance canvases that cost $3 each.

I made my own mod podge by mixing tacky glue and water (about a 2-1 ratio)
and applied the book pages to the canvas

After I got the book pages on the canvas, this is where the project turned into Science Fair mode.

Remember my printer post?
Well, my brother and sister in law got me an ink jet printer for Christmas and I have been loving it.
I pretty much broke out any tutorial for transferring images I could find.
This one was the best by far!


the graphics fairy

I searched high and low for Citra Solv


With no luck

So I tried making my own wax paper transfer using an image from The Graphics Fairy

It started out o.k. but once I transferred the image it looked like this

Not sure if it was the water I squirted first (like the directions said) or if it didn't like the paper I used, 

but it was a fail

I remembered I had some linen that I bought at Ikea 

So I tried the printing on fabric method and had success!

I literally stared at the printer as it took fabric and printed an image on it.

It was amazing!  

Some spray adhesive later and here is my linen and book page art

I used images I loved so they are a bit random

but I'm a bit random so that's o.k.

This fan is my favorite!

I sort of have a thing for old fans.

So now I need to find a place to hang them.

I'm pretty sure I will call my handy husband in to help!

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